Method of attaching heels to the soles of boots or shoes



(No Model.)

I. F. RAYMOND, 2d. METHOD OF ATTAGHING HEELS TO THE sons 0? BOOTS 0RSHOES.

No. 474,146. .Patented May 3,1892.

WITNESSES- 4% W2 Z' NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2D, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF ATTACHING HEELS TO THE SOLES 0F BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,146, dated May 3,1892.

Application filed July 13, 1889. Serial No. 317.479. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2d, a citizen ofthe UnitedStates, residing at Newton, in the county of Middlesex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Methodof Attaching I-Ieels to the Soles of Boots or Shoes, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, inexplaining its nature.

The invention has for its obj eet the withindescribed method of drivingnails into heelblanks either for the purpose of attachment or forornamental purposes or for wear. 7

The invention comprises, first, the formation by pointing and severingor by severing upon the ends of a gang or group of wires a number ofnails of the required length and form; second, in suitably supportingthese nails in proper order for driving into the heelblank, and, third,in driving these nails by the wires from which they have been cut orsevered, each gang or group of fastenings or nails thus driven beingpreviously cut or formed from the ends of the wires used in driving.

Referringto the drawings, Figure 1 is a view representing the relationwhich the wires bear to the clamp, holder, and heel at the beginning ofthe operation, together with a cutter in dotted lines shown to one sideof the other devices. Fig. 2 represents the second step in the process,or the position which the wireholders, nail-support, and wire occupy inrelation to each other at the time the ends of the wires are severed.Fig. 3 represents the relation which the parts bear to each otherimmediately before the driving of the severed ends of the wire. Fig. 4represents the severed ends of the wire as driven. Fig. 5 is a plan ofthe nailed heel-blank.

In practicing the process the Wires a are arranged in the order in whichit is desired that the nails be driven, and they are held in suchposition in any suitable way, preferably by the clamp-plates a a aBeneath the Wires I arrange a plate a having holes a of the samearrangement as the wires. The heelblank into which the nails are to bedriven is held against the under surface of the plate a by any suitablemeans, and the wires are arranged to project from the under surface oftheclamp a as represented in Fig. 1, and their ends are located in theholes a of the plate a The ends of the wires are then severed, and theline of the cut may be anywhere between their ends and the under surfaceof the clamp-plate, and the severed ends are dropped into the holes aThis severing may be done by a saw moved horizontally across the groupof wires or in any other desired way. The wires are then released by theclamp and moved in the clamping mechanism or device a distance equal tothe length of the severed ends, and the Wires are then reclamped and aremoved as a gang or group into the holes 0 driving the previously-severedsections thereof through said holes into the heel-blank. They are thenlifted somewhat and their ends again severed, and the position of theclamp in relation to the ends varied to produce driving ends, and theprocess continues upon a new or next heel in order, as before.

The invention provides a Very simple and efficient means of formingnails or fastenings from the instruments or wires used in driving them.

Having thus fully described my invention. I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States- 1. The improvement in the methodof forming and driving nails into heel-blanks, consisting in severingthe ends of any desired length from a gang or group of wires, holdingthe said ends in a suitable holding device, and then driving saidsevered ends from said holding device into the heel-blank by the wirelengths or main sections of the wire from which the ends forming thenails or wires have been cut, substantially as described.

2. The method of forming and driving nails into the heel-blanks, whichconsists, first, in

arranging the ends of a gang or group of wires in the order in which thefastenings are to be driven; second, in clamping the'wires any de sireddistance above their ends; third, in severing the ends of the clampedwires to any lengths or main sections of the wire from desired extentorlength from said ends ;f0urth, which the ends forming the nails or wiresin placing said severed endsin a suitable holdhave been out,substantially as specified.

ing deviee;fifth,in changingtheloeationofthe FREEBORN F. RAYMOND, 2D.clamp upon the assembled wires, and, sixth, Witnesses:

in driving the severed ends from said templet J. M. DOLAN, ornail-holder into the heel-blank by the wire J. J. BALL.

